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Private firm employee Mohammad Ekram Hossain visited Chandrima Udyan with his wife and daughter to enjoy the weekend. As evening approached, he hired an autorickshaw to head home to Madhya Badda.

However, the journey came to an abrupt halt at Amtoli in Mohakhali around 6:00pm as students of Government Titumir College blocked the road for the third consecutive day on Saturday to press for the demand that the college be turned into a university.

For the next 50 minutes, Ekram and his family waited inside the autorickshaw, hoping for a way to continue their journey. When the students announced an hour-long blockade at Gulshan-1 intersection, Ekram chose to walk home.

“Road blockades occur at any time. There is no security on the road. We do not know when the road will be cleared. No one knows anything, and there was no police,” a frustrated Ekram told The Daily Star.

Contacted, Al Amin Hossain, additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Gulshan Zone), said police were on alert. “We have remained near the gathering to monitor the situation and maintain law and order. We will take action if any untoward incidents occur.”

As the students’ ultimatum to meet their demand remained unfulfilled, they blocked the road outside the college after 4:00pm. As a result, traffic on both sides of Bir Uttam AK Khandaker Road, from Mohakhali to Gulshan-1, came to a standstill. After 6:15pm, the The

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